In Wretched Outcomes, The Devil Is In

When We Deal With Cities We Are Dealing With Life At Its Most Complex And Intense. Planners Are Guided By Principles Derived From The Behaviour And Appearance Of Suburbs, Tuberculosis Sanatoria, Fairs And Imaginary Dream Cities - From Anything But Cities Themselves.

The More Successfully A City Mingles Everyday Diversity Of Uses And Users In Its Everyday Streets, The More Successfully, Casually (and Economically) Its People Thereby Enliven And Support Well-located Parks That Can Thus Give Back Grace And Delight To Their Neighborhoods Instead Of Vacuity.

Unfortunately [rené] Lévesque Had So Little Self Confidence In Quebec And In The People Themselves, That He Fell For That And, Yes, He'd Say, You Know, It Might Be Ruinous For Us Economically.

I Think That Part Of The Growing Popularity Of The New Urbanism Is Not Simply Because It Is So Rational, And Not Simply Because People Care So Much About Community Or Even Understand It, Or The Relation Of Sprawl To The Ruination Of The Natural World. But They Just Don't Like What Is Around. And They Will Be Ruthless With It.

People Who Think Of Themselves As Exiles, I Find, Can Never Really Put Their Lives Together, Really.